Osaka comes back against Azarenka and wins his second US Open

• Tennis.Osaka unseats Serena Williams as the highest paid athlete on the planet

Japanese tennis player

, fourth seed, rallied a set against and defeated Belarusian

, world number 27

, 1-6, 6-3 and 6-3 on Saturday

to

.

Osaka, who claimed her second Open title in three years, won the first in 2018, also achieved her

, having won the 2019 Australian Open.

The new champion is the fifth Open Era player to win her first three Grand Slam finals, after

.

The 22-year-old Osaka, who could barely win a game in the first set, after making 13 unforced errors for five winning strokes, compared to Azarenka's 3 and 7, respectively, regained her best tennis from the second with a

.

Although Osaka started the second in the same way that the first had concluded, with Azarenka's 'break' for 2-0, in the third game, the Japanese tennis player

and everything turned in her favor.

Osaka regained confidence in his tennis, focused, secured shots from the back of the court, and broke again in the seventh game (4-3) to keep the sleeve and get fully into the game.

The former world number one continued

and with her rest she again achieved the decisive break in the fourth game for the 3-1 partial that would give her the advantage and the initiative in the center court

.

Although she gave up her serve in the seventh for 4-3, she recovered it in the eighth for 5-3 and in the first match point she ensured the victory that was proclaimed for the second time the new 'queen' of the US Open.

The match between the two former world number one and Grand Slam champions, which lasted one hour and 53 minutes, left Osaka with six aces and two double faults for 3 and 2 that Azarenka placed.

While Osaka finished with 34 winners against 26 unforced errors, compared to 30 and 22 for Azarenka, who in the end could not get the decisive points.

The victory allows Osaka to leave its mark at 3-1 in the confrontations against Azarenka and remain unbeaten 11-0 since arriving three weeks ago at the tracks of Flushing Meadows, where it also reached the final of the Premier 5 of Cincinnati, which is He played on the same stage due to the coronavirus pandemic, but did not play due to a titled left leg injury for Azarenka.

She also managed to win a prize of three million dollars and climb from ninth to fourth place in the WTA rankings.

The new Open champion ties with Germany's Angelique Kerber, for fourth place among the active players with the most Grand Slam titles.

Only Serena Williams (23), her sister Venus (7) and Belgian Kim Clijsters (4) surpass her.

While Azarenka, who was contesting her fifth Grand Slam final, the first since 2013 when she lost the Open final to Serena Williams, has broken a streak of 11 consecutive wins since arriving at Flushing Meadows.

But the 31-year-old former world number one gets a prize of one and a half million in cash and climb to fourteenth place in the WTA rankings.

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